"True Blood" co-star Luke Grimes will play Elliot, Christian's adopted brother. Elliot is described as a tall, muscular 30-something with curly blond hair and blue eyes. He ends up in a romance with Anastasia's best friend (part has yet to be cast). Jennifer Ehle will play Carla the mother of female lead Anastasia

The novel is the first in a planned trilogy. James has sold 31 million e-book and print copies in English-language markets worldwide, in the U.S. alone she has sold over 20 million copies in e-book and print.

Cameras were scheduled to roll on the film adaptation at North Shore Studios in Vancouver on November 5th--Instead things will get going on December 2 2013.The decision may now affect the planned released date of the film of August 1, 2014.

“B.O.O. (Bureau of Otherworldly Operations) is the super classified agency you’ve never heard of and certainly never seen. Dedicated to protecting humans from evil hauntings, the agents of B.O.O. have a secret weapon: They are ghosts themselves! When newbie agents Jackson Moss (Seth Rogen) and his odd-ball partner Watts (Melissa McCarthy) uncover a plot to destroy B.O.O. by the agency’s Most Wanted Haunter, they must use every trick in their arsenal to defeat his powerful ghost army and save Earth from a ghostly fate.”

In the film Aaron Eckhart will play an unconventional exorcist who can tap into the subconscious of the possessed. He soon meets his match when a nine-year-old boy is possessed by a demon from his past.

"Carrie" isn't the only Stephen King novel getting a second big screen adaptation it would seem.
Filmmaker Juan Carlos Fresnadillo ("28 Weeks Later," "Intruders") is returning to the horror genre as he is set to direct the remake of "Pet Sematary" at Paramount Pictures.
The original 1983 novel follows a family who move to a small Maine town along a highway often used by high-speed trucks. Nearby lies a pet cemetery and further beyond that an ancient indian burial ground which can resurrect the dead, but those who come back aren't quite right.
When their toddler son is killed in an auto accident, the grieving father uses that power - but at the cost of several lives and his own sanity. The book was previously adapted into a quite successful film in 1989 starring Dale Midkiff, Denise Crosby and Fred Gwynne.
Matt Greenberg and David Kajganich wrote the script while Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Steven Schneider are producing.
Source: Variety

Thus, producer Kathleen Kennedy and much of the film's production team have asked for the film's release to be pushed back until 2016. However, studio suit and CEO Robert A. Iger is "adamant" that 'Episode VII' must open in 2015.

Abrams is "more in sync" with Iger's directive to hit that 2015 release no matter what, leaving no margin for error or setback.

The script is said to include Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia and Han Solo in their later years. No official word yet if Mark Hamill could be tempted to return as Luke Skywalker but he is interested... Carrie Fisher had all but confirmed that she would be back in the role of Princess Leia--but then her rep told CNN that she 'wasjoking' . At first Harrison Ford was interested...but had since walked that back--Now his deal to appear as Han Solo is not only done but seemingly goes beyond Ep VII

Zac Efron and Ryan Gosling were rumored to be in the running for the eagerly awaited next film with Gosling in particular is also being talked about for the role of Luke Skywalker's son. Leonardo DiCaprio is said to have passed on an offer to appear. Pretty wild...

The story sees an American couple (Phillippe and Lefevre) who head to Puerto Rico to finalize the adoption of their new seven-year-old daughter, a Haitian orphan named Nina. Taking time to explore the coast to bond as a new family, the husband clashes with an intimidating local (John Cusack), soon after Nina disappears from her bed during the night.

Kate Beckinsale has an offer out to play a mother who moves her family to a colonial mansion in the country. She begins to lose her sanity as she learns of the home's bloody past and sees visions of a dead girl.

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The film will focus on the obsessive Coe and his rivalry with Steve Ovett. Coe was a quiet loner driven to the brink by his ambitious father. Ovett was an effortless and natural athlete fighting to prove himself in an elitist world.

"After Marvel's The Avengers, the Marvel films are more interwoven than ever, and this pairing is the perfect complement to both of the new movies.Thor: The Dark World is going to be an exceptional theater-going experience, and this sneak peek will really rev fans up for the return of not only the Mighty Avenger but the First Avenger as well."

The latest sequel is based on a -2 issue story arc in the 'X-Men' comics published in 1981. Kinberg (Sherlock Holmes) is on board to pen the screenplay which will include New Mutants. Magneto and his relationship with Charles X. Xavier will be front and center as well.

Singer penned the treatment and produced 'First Class' which was directed by Matthew Vaughn. Now, their roles will be completely reversed for this sequel with Singer helming the film while Vaughn wrote the treatment and will produce with Lauren Shuler Donner and writer Simon Kinberg

Wolverine has streaks of grey hair in the future: "The grey in the hair is something I took from X-Men Days Of Future Past, it’s a look in the comic. I liked it, even though he hasn’t really aged physically it’s something that shows how tough things have gotten in the future, and brought that out in him and given him a little more world-weariness."

Storm showing up: "She’s one of the last surviving X-Men in this post-apocalyptic world. She’s part of that with Wolverine and Charles and Magneto; they’re some of the last folk standing from the original X-Men. They’re at the spearhead of this mission, this last chance at saving the world. This is their only hope, their mission into time. Can you actually go back and affect time? Can you go back and change things or will time correct itself? Will history fight you back and is your destiny pre-determined or can you change it?"

Magneto teams up with the X-Men because: "They’re on the run. There’s no organisation. It’s all been shattered. Most of them have been hunted down. Most of them are dead."

The four new mutants in the future scenes: "They’re not really fresh recruits. They’re more refugees that are living day to day in this hideously ruined world. They don’t have much hope in the future. They’re on the run and they join forces with the remaining X-Men to try to do this one last attempt at fixing the world."

Young Magneto's use of non-powered weapons: "There’s a line in the movie, ‘He’s always had a way with guns’. That’s how he crippled Xavier, and he’s such a powerful mutant but in this particular moment he’s holding a gun and I like that. He’s a product of the Second World War and he knows how to use a gun as much as he does his powers."

Young Xavier trying to access Logan's mind: "He’s trying to access something deep in his mind. That’s what the line’s about, 'You’re going to need to do for me what I once did for you'. In X-Men 1, Logan was a lost, lonely person and Charles helped him find himself. Now the tables are turned and Logan is coming into the world from the future to find a man who’s at the end of his rope in the past."

On Fassbender's performance: "Fassbender knew that he would be, well, not sharing the frame with Ian McKellen, but sharing the movie with Ian McKellen. So where on First Class he tried to be as different as possible from McKellen, because that was a very different character, he now knows as an actor he’d have to bring his performance slightly closer to Ian’s because he’s heading in that direction."

Since most of the action takes place in 1973, before events in "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," Wolverine will have bone claws: "He doesn’t have his metal yet in 1973".

The scene bringing together young and older Xavier: "It’s an abstract scene, without giving away its origin and how it happens. It’s a trippy scene, it has a bit of '70s style in it and the entire scene involved a lot of interesting practical photography using mirrors and other things. It was fun to shoot, and it was great to get the two actors together."

Be sure to read the entire Empire post for additional info.

Post-production on the sequel continues "X-Men: Days Of Future Past" hits screens May 23rd 2014.

The film follows four teenagers stuck at the bottom of a ravine after they crash a car they stole. They soon find themselves in the crosshairs of the car’s psychotic owner who will stop at nothing to retrieve the car's valuable contents.

Commercials and music video helmer Dan Tondowski will make his narrative directing debut here

The script by Andrew Baldwin follows a POW (Tom Hardy) in Osaka during World War II who stays on after the war. He works his way through the rituals and hardships to become the rare outsider who gains membership in the Yakuza crime unit.

"Look, I am sorry to tell you this but that movie won’t happen. Evil Dead 2 is not going to happen, at least not with us involved. We left that project many months ago because we preferred to put our energies on other things. I don’t know if the producers still have intentions of making it. But what I can tell you is that we are not part of that project."

Based on author Charlie Huston's novel, the first in the Hank Thompson trilogy, follows a former baseball prospect (Patrick Wilson) who become a bartender living a ho hum life He soon finds himself caught up in a bloody treasure hunt through New York City.

In the film Grillo plays an ex-Wall Street employee whom the Secretary of the Treasury calls upon to thwart a cyber attack that threatens to derail the American economy. With the help of his wife, he recruits his rag tag team of misfits, and prepares to save the world from total financial implosion.

Based on British author Martin Amis' book, the story follows an hypnotic and clairvoyant femme fatale (Amber Heard) in London's underworld who sets a plan in motion to fulfill the prophecy of her own murder. Her web entangles a terminally ill writer (Billy Bob Thornton), a street hustler (Jim Sturgess) and an unhappily married banker (Theo James). The writer convinces her to let him document her manipulations in a book.

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The story centers on a girl named Megan (Hailee Steinfeld), who is raised at a boarding school that trains young assassins. When she relocates to another town and attends a regular high school, she realizes that the pressures of everyday teenage life is just as hard to deal with.

Sebastian will play Cash Fenton, the lead singer in a local band who becomes a love interest for Steinfeld's character.

Kelly Marcel wrote the initial adapted screenplay. She previously worked on "Terra Nova" and penned the upcoming "Saving Mr. Banks". Oscar-nominated screenwriter Patrick Marber was tasked with the job of give performing a script rewrite and adding some extra character bits.

"True Blood" co-star Luke Grimes will play Elliot, Christian's adopted brother. Elliot is described as a tall, muscular 30-something with curly blond hair and blue eyes. He ends up in a romance with Anastasia's best friend (part has yet to be cast). Jennifer Ehle will play Carla the mother of female lead Anastasia

The novel is the first in a planned trilogy. James has sold 31 million e-book and print copies in English-language markets worldwide, in the U.S. alone she has sold over 20 million copies in e-book and print.

Cameras were scheduled to roll on the film adaptation at North Shore Studios in Vancouver on November 5th--Instead things will get going on December 2 2013.The decision may now affect the planned released date of the film of August 1, 2014.

Screen Daily reports that plans are afoot to make the actioner "London Has Fallen," a sequel to this year'a surprise action hit "Olympus Has Fallen" which grossed $161 million worldwide on a modest budget.

A festival hit in 2007, and then mistreated by moron studio suits--it was given a direct to disc
in 2009 despite the positive vibe--Now filmmaker Michael Dougherty's cult anthology horror tale "Trick 'r Treat" may finally be getting its due.

The film has grown a sizeable cult audience through disc and VOD, so much so that a sequel
has officially been confirmed and will be financed by Legendary Pictures.

The first film had a fan screening last night at the Los Angeles’ Egyptian Theater where Dougherty revealed the news and says the property could live on with a new anthology film every few years.

The burlap sack-wearing Sam would be the connecting bridge for the various stories. Things could still change though as there's no script at this point, but one thing likely to be included would be a further exploration of Sam's story.

"This is a sequel which is definitely being made because of fan demand, and because of word of mouth, which has been building for years. It’s not a sequel that’s just being rushed out because the movie had a big opening weekend. This is a sequel that people actually want, which I think is a rarity. I’m just eternally grateful for the fans for the constant, constant support."

This is great news! The original film is truly one of the BEST genre movies of the last decade...Period.